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Crane Cali 2 floor-standing coffee machine, front view with direct-selection buttons
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Floor-Standing Bean-to-Cup Coffee Machine

Crane Cali 2

Floor-standing Crane bean-to-cup with fresh-leaf tea, direct-selection buttons and a sub-40-second pour. The new generation of the Cali, designed for medium-to-high demand workplace and public sites.

Ideal Space

  • Offices
  • Reception
  • Hotels
  • Public Facilities
  • Hospitality

Advisory first

Best for offices of 80 to 150 staff, public-facing reception areas and hospitality venues that want a clean, durable floor-standing machine without the cost or complexity of a full touchscreen tower.

The Crane Cali 2 is the new generation of the workhorse floor-standing coffee machine in the Crane Convenience range, launched in the UK in August 2026. It keeps the platform the original Cali was known for, with the same footprint, brewers and ingredient capacities, and adds a redesigned front with easier cleaning, faster refilling and better access for servicing. The interface is intentionally restrained: direct-selection buttons with a 5-inch HD colour display, rather than a full touchscreen, which suits sites that want a familiar drinks menu with no learning curve.

Drink range covers the office and public-site essentials. Bean-to-cup espresso forms the base, with coffee, decaf, americano, cappuccino, caffe latte, mocha and hot chocolate from there. Fresh-leaf tea is the genuinely interesting part: rather than a tea bag in a cup, the Cali 2 brews leaf tea through Crane's dedicated Oltre tea brewer, which is a step up from machines that treat tea as an afterthought. A bean-to-cup drink takes about 39 seconds, which keeps queues moving at peak. The machine stores and drops its own cups in three sizes, holding up to 630 at 7oz, 570 at 9oz or 420 at 12oz.

Physical footprint is 1830mm tall by 700mm wide by 795mm deep, weighing around 200kg, sized for floor-standing placement against a wall in a coffee point or break-out area. Power is a standard 13-amp 230V supply, with a plumbed cold mains connection. We recommend the Cali 2 for sites where the volume justifies a dedicated coffee station but a 27-inch touchscreen would feel like over-engineering, and where having proper fresh-leaf tea on the menu is a meaningful win for the user mix. If you already run an original Cali, Crane's new door can be retrofitted to it.

In practice

Why this works for workplace teams

Proper fresh-leaf tea, not tokenism

Most office coffee machines treat tea as an afterthought. The Cali 2 has a dedicated fresh-leaf tea brewer, which lifts tea drinkers out of the bag-in-cup experience without sacrificing the espresso menu they expect.

Familiar interface, less training

The direct-selection buttons and colour display are intentionally simple. Visitors and staff understand the menu instantly, with no swipes or sub-menus, which is what you want at a self-service public point.

Built for steady all-day use

The Cali 2 is engineered for the rhythm of a busy office or public site, not peak-only events. The new generation was redesigned around easier cleaning, faster refills and better access for servicing, which is what keeps a machine available.

Enquire

Enquire about the Crane Cali 2

Tell us a little about your space and how it'll be used. We'll come back with a tailored recommendation, real-world install examples, and an honest steer on whether this is the right floor-standing bean-to-cup coffee machine for you.

  • One working day response from a real consultant
  • No hard-sell. We recommend other models if they fit better
  • Nationwide install and ongoing service across the UK

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Common Crane Cali 2 questions

Answers to what we're most often asked when scoping a rollout.

It is the same platform with a redesigned front. The footprint, brewers and ingredient capacities carry over, so it fits the same space and the same water and power provision. What changes is the door and the detail around it: easier cleaning, faster refilling and better access for servicing. Crane also offers the new door as a retrofit, so an existing Cali can be updated without replacing the machine.

Both are 1830mm floor-standing Crane machines in the same cabinet, with the same cup and ingredient capacities. The differentiator is the interface: the Cali 2 uses direct-selection buttons with a 5-inch colour display, suiting sites that want a familiar drinks menu and proper fresh-leaf tea, while the Coti 2 steps up to a 27-inch HD touchscreen with built-in connectivity. Pick the Cali 2 for steady staff use; pick the Coti 2 for customer-facing sites where the touchscreen earns its keep.

The Cali 2 has a separate brewer for tea that brews leaf tea properly with water at the right temperature, rather than dispensing hot water onto a bag in a cup. The result is a proper cup of tea rather than a stewed or under-extracted bag drink. For UK sites where tea matters, this is a real upgrade over machines that just give you a hot water tap.

It is sized for medium-to-high demand sites, typically 80 to 150 staff in an office context, or comparable footfall in hotels and public facilities. Quick pour times and dedicated tea brewing keep peak queues moving. Sites with daily counts above around 200 cups, or with concentrated peak demand, are usually better served by the Coti 2 or by stepping into Vitro X5 territory.

Yes. The Cali is widely used in unattended environments including hotel front-of-house, public reception areas and transport hubs. We can spec MDB-compatible cashless and contactless payment, and the direct-selection interface is intuitive for first-time users. Hopper locking and access control are available for sites that need them.

Floor-standing placement against a wall, plumbed cold mains water and a standard 13-amp 230V supply. Standard install timelines are 2 to 3 weeks once specified and ordered. Day to day, the drip tray and dispense area need a wipe-down and the canisters refilling as they are used. We cover quarterly preventative maintenance including descale, grinder calibration and replacement of wear parts.

Different positioning. The Franke A Line A600 is a premium modular bench machine with iQFlow extraction and FoamMaster, designed for hotel lounges and premium offices where the cup quality bar is highest. The Coffetek Vitro X4 is a free-standing tower with optional media screen and tea variant. The Cali 2 sits between them: a durable floor-standing machine with proper fresh-leaf tea and a familiar interface, at a more accessible price point than the Franke. We help you decide based on volume, design preferences and tea demand.

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